They tlien appoint lectures once a fortnight regularly for 6 months, and as there are no preachers in those towns, the people attend during the 6 months they are as regular as the congregational or presbyterian clergy ; and they are unwearied in their endeavours to gain the good will of the people. At the end of 6 months they bring the matter to a close, by taking the names of those who are become, or are now willing to become. Methodists. If they have obtained to the No of 30 persons, they appoint a class-leader from among them, who from this time keeps up regular meetings, and is once in 3 or 4 weeks assisted by some who ride the circuit. In the first part of their establishment, they say but very little about sentiments, but they gain the people first, and then mould them to their own will. But I have observed tliat v.iien they have been of considerable standing, they become disorderly, and the steady good characters

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leave tliem, and return back to Congregationalism. Gave an order to Deacon Mathews for one vol. of Select Sermons, one of Doddridge's Addresses, and 10 catechisms. Visited one school -- gave 5 catechisms to the instructress for tlie use of the children wWle she is their teacher, and when she leaves the school to give one of them to the child yt shall have made the most progress, and the others to the most needy. Gave an Address to a ]VP Cory and another to a M'^ Curtis.